KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[Parker Coates]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 08:08, nf2 wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Pierre <pinaraf at pinaraf.info> wrote:
>> Ok, let's suppose I browse a website requiring authentication using Konqueror
>> (through kio_http). I click on a link that opens with another application. This
>> application uses the GVFS http handler. That link won't work since cookies won't
>> be kept, nor will Http:basic authentication "tokens"...
>> Having a common dbus api for both gvfs and kio seems much better from that point
>> of view since the application would then "automatically" use KIO, wouldn't it ?
>
> But what could be done to tackle this:
>
> * Change Konq to just download such files, just like FF. Personally i
> like that web-browsers are kind of their own sandbox, not sharing
> session information with the rest of the computer. For instance I'm
> using two browsers on my desktop: One for Gmail, and one for everthing
> else. But i can hear the KDE crowd shout: That's against our credo - a
> fully integrated desktop.

It's not just an integration issue. It's also a user experience issue.

If I click on a 20MB PDF in Firefox, it must download the entire thing
before handing it off to Okular, which can me a considerable delay.
With Konqueror, the URL is just handed to Okular which can then
display the document as it is downloaded. By the time I've got a page
or two read, the documents already there. There are similar cases for
video, audio, etc. It's a really, really great feature.

Parker